RE: [MOBILE-IP] MIPv6 node location detection

[Fred Baker]

At 08:36 PM 10/17/00 +1100, Hesham Soliman (EPA) wrote:
>=> I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by the foreign agent.
>Perhaps you have another entity in mind ? Because the current MIPv6  draft 
>does not have foreign agents.
And therefore doesn't have a soft hand off option unless one can literally 
talk with both routers during the hand off. The Hierarchical Mobility draft 
suggests having an external system offer one of its addresses a second 
care-of address to provide this; to me, that's a foreign agent in disguise, 
and would be useful in that case. Sorry I was quick on the language.

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